This release comes with new styles providing better look and feel (Baghira, Domino, Ia Ora), new widgets (KoolDock and TastyMenu), new utilities (KXMLEditor, Mathemagics, Qalculate) and new applications (Codeine, TDEDocker, TDEPacman). It also adds support for Xine 1.2.10, improves compatibility with PulseAudio, fixes various bugs, adds support for brightness control from keyboard and integrates CVE-2020-17507 to prevent buffer overflow in XBM parsers.
I both want and do not want to run the Trinity Desktop Environment. It harkens back to simpler times, but I’m not entirely sure that’s what people actually want.
Trying this out gave me a rush of nostalgia that kept me going for days. Then reality set in.
That modern desktops are bloated in comparison?
I’d say that CDE is more bloated than something like LXQT, though.
That’s laughable… CDE was designed to run on 50mhz machines.
Can I ask for examples about bad experiences?
I haven’t spent much time with TDE, but MATE which is trying to do a similar thing seems quite successful, and more usable than newer versions. Back when it was new, KDE 3.5 was a good environment but was quite large for the hardware of the day; today it seems like the main problem with it is fixed organically.
Well that’s not what I meant, but I guess they are. I just found it to be relying on some applications and paradigms that don’t work so well in 2020.
Let alone the fact that are using Qt 3.0, which is a giant code base riddled with security issues.
As much as I like(d) KDE 3.5, in this day and age using such an old and unsupported base library is very problematic.
(Though given the relatively small user base, an attack directed at TDE users is very unlikely…)
It is kind of odd, there are two projects that split off of gnome when they changed to Gnome-Shell, one stuck with GTK2 and the other went with GTK3, and granted now I think they are both going to be GTK4.
Not sure why TDE stuck with the ancient Qt. Can you not do the look and feel of 3.x with Qt 5.x?
I still remember when KDE hit 1.x and it looked like a bad Win95 clone. :p
Personally I just install the TDE base (display, window & file manager) and then complement the desktop experience with the standard Qt/GTK applications everyone uses.
Interesting. Any drawbacks you’ve found?
Mostly theming issues, extreme scenario you’ll have GTK2+3 and Qt3+4+5 applications. The worst offender is definitely GTK3 as the others are easily made to look the same.
The base TDE applications (panel, terminal, text editor, file archiver etc) are very good but beyond something essential like K3b-trinity you’ll see the cracks. KTorrent-trinity is just too old compared to QBittorrent.
I like running TDE, generally in the form of Q4OS’s latest TDE release in a VM. The nostalgic rush associated with my favorite desktop from years ago is a welcome diversion from the press of the here and now. TDE harks back to kinder, gentler, simpler times for me as a relatively new Linux user. Other than the occasional brief ‘return to yesteryear’, reality always beckons me back with the latest Linux Mint Mate’ release.
<3 that Trinity exists, Mate exists, etc.
But sometimes I wish someone would take a look at https://github.com/heliocastro/kde2 and then port it to Qt5 and add something like XFCE's Whisker Menu and some Windows-10-style window tiling to it. THAT would be a desktop I'd enjoy using.